man.... you know you care a wee too much for your games when a doctor says to you "Look, your in deep s**t.... You may need a new kidney in as little as 6 months..." and the very first thing to come to your mind is "oh no.... I'll never finish tales of xilia!!"

Hahaha, good man!

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NOTE: Depressing as this news may sound, don't anyone get alarmed.... doctors have been telling me I'm gonna die for years.... I still run between 8-12 miles a day, smoke 2-3 packs of cigarettes and feel like a million bucks :)........ but I wish they would stop giving me such grim reports... really bums me out for a moment

Maybe this is WHY you keep getting reports about your impending death... ;) On the other hand, if you're gonna croak in six months anyway you might as well enjoy yourself. Have a cigar, boy! (Also, just remember that you won't out-do Clark Gable: 3 packs of unfiltered + 4 cigars + 3 or more bowls out of his pipe a day.)

The second girl in that Tumblr is doing it. Its just compressing your neck while pushing your chin down so the flesh of your neck rolls up. You don't even need to be overweight to do it. Some people do have exceptionally bony necks though.

~ I went shopping with my mum today. Two places I like were going out of business. They don't sell clothes. This has been a trend. Basically, my mall is 90% clothing stores by this point, this excludes food and drink places, but includes hair and other accessory shops. HMV is singing it's last song, EB games is doing fine enough, and I guess that one book store is doing ok because it's attached to a bigger chain of book stores.

~ I bought a black bamboo tray from a Japanese shop whose owner was closing up and going online (rent was too high, niche was too small). They were selling it at 75% of it's original price tag; I actually think I heard their heart break when they were selling it, it's rare and pricey, and going for a steal.

~ When eating alfredo sauce, you shouldn't add many other dairy products like cheese or milk to thicken/loosen the sauce when re=heating it for the next day... you're gonna have a bad time.

~ I had a magical connection with a random person the other day while I was waiting for take out at Swiss Chalet. It was one of those where you wonder where five minutes more would have got you, and then that moment where you part ways probably to never meet again. It makes me happy to know it's "not me", since I'm dogshit with keeping friends, especially with my semester, work load, and general whack schedule. If I'm not in school for long hours or reading till late at night on weekdays, then I work on weekends!! :D

~ I get crushes on "weird" looking guys. I think John H Benjamin is a great looking guy. And Edward Norton was my high school crush. Being a giant tomboy, I have trouble talking with women, I tend to get somewhat flustered when a conversation goes so well. I think I need an equally tomboy friend.

~ I actually get upset thinking about the tricky place SC for Trails in the Sky is in. How weird an HD RPG developed with Studio Ghibli's help and fancy pants Nintendo-war game sequel can't make me feel the same "gaming-happy" that a budget JRPG did with a ton of text. I think I'm joining Neal on finding more "out there" titles, the big stuff isn't as impressive these days as something unique or different.

~ One of my weird dreams is to pen and draw a kid's story book. I think they're amazing

~ I watched Boondock Saints again the other night. I think it is one of few titles that is *safe* to say it IS in my Top 5. And given the amount of [awesome] movies I've watched in my life, I think it's big when you or anyone can admit a movie into your top 5.

Well I wish I had a definitive answer for that..... sadly I don't... the tale goes as such....

A few years ago I began to develop a host of anomolous maladies.... the origins of which could not be determined to present day.. one of the more troubling of this problems is fluid retention... extreme edema.... to the point of becoming pulmonary if left unchecked.... and since the cause could not be determined, it was decided the symptom must be treated.... in other words I have been on a vampiric dose of diuretic for years (I say vampiric because it completely demolished my tolerance of sunlight.... first summer I was on it I literally did not go out til the sun went down and feel asleep as soon as the sky began to light up each day)

So now supposedly the diuretic has ruined my kidney function.... but without getting into it, the doctors who are making this call are really jumping the gun.... their basis for this assumption is not based on anything other than a blood test.... I also am not showing any signs of advanced kidney disease what-so-ever...... hence why I am not too concerned....

other aspects of what this means are more alarming and immediate to me... such as altering the diuretic which i NEED at this point....

what frustrates me is the fact that they decide these things and tell me I am dying without doing any conclusive testing first.... the numbers in my blood they are looking at when they say "your screwed" can shift based on a ton of factors.... I'm not worrying about anything until they look at my kidney function via more (accurate) testing....